I want to own a network. I want to own a network where you can turn it on with your family all day long and get positive reinforcement.
I had one request when I started doing the plays. My prayer was, 'God, let me do well enough to be able to take care of my mother.' I was able to do that 'til the day she died because of my audience.
My father who was there in the house, he wasn't at all a role model. And my mother, who was trying to protect me from him as best she could, she took me everywhere with her, which gave me a tremendous amount of sensitivity to the things women go through.
It takes a week to do a sitcom in Hollywood. I do a show a day in my studio, three or four shows a week.
Did you know you can't say 'Jesus' in a sitcom? They told me that, and I was like, You gotta be kiddin' me. If you don't want my God here, you don't want me here either.
Seven years after my mother's passing, I still reach for the phone for a split second to call her. We spoke every day.
I'm not interested in doing 'Star Wars.' It's an amazing movie, but that's not my gift. I tell the stories that I tell that relate to the people who love what I do. That is the place and the path that I know I am supposed to be on. The minute I try and go do something else, it will be amazing to watch how quickly that don't work.
Statistics say that I'm supposed to be in jail. And I'm not supposed to be alive.
I know my audience, and they're not people that the studios know anything about.
All my life I've tried to hide my height. I was taller than everybody else and stood out, so I would slouch and try to hide it.
I have a fear of tubes and tunnels. Going through any tunnel causes me great anxiety.
There's a huge demand for my entertainment, and I can't meet the need. So I decided to try a TV show to reach as many of my fans as possible.
My family never went to a restaurant together; we never went to the movies together. Vacation, we never did that.
I'm not sure why no one wants to admit there's a viable audience out there that believes in God and wants to see a movie with their family. The demand is there. The supply is not.
Hollywood is finally waking up to the fact that people who go to church also go to the movies. I'm not sure what took them so long to see that or how long they'll keep it up.
The Bible says that all things work together for the good of those who love the Lord and are called according to his purpose. I believe that. Because I've seen it all work.
What do you spend $200 million on, with a film? I can't wrap my brain around that one.
My first show was called 'I Know I've Been Changed' in '92. I tried to do this show for years and years. It kept failing over and over and over again. Every time I went out to do the show, nobody showed up. I was like, 'What is this about?'
You can never be upset with the people who forced you into your dream or up higher.
"You only mess up when you mix them seasonal people, with lifetime expectations." -Madea/Tyler Perry